New spurt in Cyprus reunification agenda - and a kosher wine from the isle of Aphrodite

From CNN :

Cyprus' two communities agreed on Tuesday the agenda of five working groups and technical committees, which will help pave the way for full-fledged reunification talks expected by the end of June.

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A total of 13 working groups and technical committees will be established by the two sides. The working groups will focus on substantive issues like power-sharing, security and property while the technical committees concentrate on day-to-day matters.

Leaders of the two communities agreed last month in a breakthrough to revive the long-stalled talks for the reunification of the east Mediterranean island which has remained divided since 1974.

On Thursday, a key commercial street bisected following inter-communal violence in the 1960s in old Nicosia was opened, which was viewed as a highly symbolic step on the road toward possible reunification of the divided island.

Meanwhile, the JTA reports on the First kosher wine from Cyprus

The tiny Jewish community on Cyprus made its own kosher wine.

The first 12,000 bottles of Yayin Kafrisin recently rolled out of the Lambouri Winery in Kato Platres, a 300-year-old boutique winery. The Cabernet Sauvignon-Grenach Noir blend was named after the Cypriot wine mentioned in the Talmud as a necessary ingredient for burning incense in the Jerusalem Temple, according to Rabbi Zeev Raskin, the co-director of Chabad on Cyprus.

Raskin approached the Cypriot winery with the proposal that it make a kosher wine, and he supervised every step of the production.

Cyprus Jews must import 90 percent of their kosher food.